[manlymuppet]

I think people trying to move off GitHub are being over righteous.

There are far worse companies than GitHub. People acting like this company is the Nazi regime are being ridiculous. GitHub (like most of tech) is rather progressive, and trivial differences in perspective should not be taken so seriously.

Of course, you can choose whichever service you'd like, for whatever reason you'd like, but acting like allies that agree with you on almost everything are enemies is no way to make progress. This is something that should not be high on the list of priorities.

[greysonp]

While many have ethical issues with GitHub, my understanding is that the current wave of people leaving are doing so because of _reliability_ reasons.

[phinnaeus]

I might have moved off for self righteousness but my company might be more interested in moving off because their reliability is absolutely garbage

[manlymuppet]

I hear you, and that's a perfectly valid reason to leave. Even if your company left for righteousness reasons rather than reliability, supporting businesses based on your morals is a commendable thing.

I just think GitHub is a long way from Tammany Hall.

[vkou]

A devops friend of mine raises an intriguing point - he does not aim for many-nines reliability with dev infrastructure.

He aims for people being able to keep doing their work when whatever service they regularly use is down.

(Which also means that he is able to go on vacation.)

[phinnaeus]

Yeah seems like six of one, half a dozen of another. GitHub’s downtime blocks devs